Truelove

(Edward), English publisher, b. 29 Oct. 1809. Early in life he embraced the views of Robert Owen, and for nine years was secretary of the John Street Institution. In ’44 and ’45 he threw in his lot with the New Harmony Community, Hampshire. In ’52 he took a shop in the Strand, where he sold advanced literature. He published Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary and Romances , Paine’s complete works, D’Holbach’s System of Nature , and Taylor’s Syntagma and Diegesis . In ’58 he was prosecuted for publishing a pamphlet on Tyrannicide , by W. E. Adams, but the prosecution was abandoned. In ’78 he was, after two trials, sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for publishing R. D. Owen’s Moral Physiology . Upon his release he was presented with a testimonial and purse of 200 sovereigns.